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I discovered E years ago and always lament it never had a resurgence. Coming from Scala/Akka, I adore message-based/actor systems and saw the promise of E to th
by halfmatthalfcat 4y ago
I discovered E years ago and always lament it never had a resurgence. Coming from Scala/Akka, I adore message-based/actor systems and saw the promise of E to that end. Maybe some day we will get a first class actor language. Swift is kind of trying right now but it still feels bolted on.
- olodus 4y agoI'm guessing you are not considering Erlang/Elixir "first class" then. Is it because they are hosted on the BEAM? If the hosted VM part is what it comes down to you also have Pony. Haven't looked at it in quite a while but it always surprised me it didn't end up more popular.
- vanderZwan 4y agoMy best guess is that a lot of people looked at its capability system and thought "wait, it's like Rust's borrow checker except even more of a hassle than the borrow checker?" and noped out. Which is unfair to Pony, but if you think of how Rust already scares some people off then that first impression of Pony might end up doing even worse.
- ryukafalz 4y agoThere's Spritely Goblins, which takes a lot of inspiration from E. It's a library so it may feel bolted on to you, but in true lisp fashion it feels like it's part of the language when you're using it: https://docs.racket-lang.org/goblins/ https://docs.racket-lang.org/goblins/
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